Rebellion on the Amazon - The Cabanagem, Race, Popular Culture in North of Brazil, 1798 1840

Informationen zum Autor Mark Harris is based at the University of St Andrews. He was awarded a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship, 1996–1999, and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2004. He is the author of Life on the Amazon: The Anthropology of a Brazilian Peasant Village (2000), editor of Ways of Knowing (2007), and co-editor (with Stephen Nugent) of Some Other Amazonians (2006). He has also taught at the Federal University of Pará in Belém, Brazil, and the London School of Economics. Klappentext This is the first book-length study in English to examine the Cabanagem, one of Brazil's largest peasant and urban-poor insurrections. Zusammenfassung The Brazilian Amazon experienced! in the late 1830s! one of Brazil's largest peasant insurrections! known as the Cabanagem! in which rebels succeeded in controlling provincial government for more than a year. Here! the rebellion is placed in the context of late colonial and early national society and economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: divergent Amazonia; 1. Pará in the age of revolution, history, and historiography; 2. Life on the river; 3. The family and its means in the lower Amazon; 4. Some of the origins of peasant rebellion and the agrarian sector; 5. Forms of resistance in the late colonial period; 6. Independence, liberalism, and changing social and racial relations, 1820-1835; 7. The United Brazilian Encampment at Ecuipiranga, 1833-1837; 8. 'Vengeance on innocence': the repression and continuing rebellion, 1836-1840; Conclusion: the making of the Brazilian Amazon.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Harris
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521437233
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43723-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi; Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Brazil, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions